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Bacula MySQL Director Password Disclosure Weakness
Secunia Advisory: SA27243
Release Date: 2007-10-22
Last Update: 2007-10-26
Popularity: 5,865 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:Bacula 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Matthijs Kooijman has reported a weakness in Bacula, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information.

The weakness is caused due to the "make_catalog_backup" script using the MySQL password as command line argument when invoking other programs. This can be exploited to disclose the password via e.g. the "ps" command.

Note: In case of an error, the script may also send the MySQL password in an unencrypted email, which can be exploited to disclose the password via sniffing attacks.

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